Popular Culture
In the novel The House of God, author Samuel Shem referred to them as "Cooper's Droopers", referring to a lack of tension. In Robert L. Forward's novel Dragon's Egg, it refers to "Reverse Cooper's Droop", caused by violent sudden deceleration during spaceflight.
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